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Paula R. Backscheider - Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and Their Poetry, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2006

Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and Their Poetry

Inventing Agency, Inventing Genre

Av Paula R. Backscheider

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Beskrivning
This large-scale project aims to present a broad, original perspective on the writing and lives of eighteenth century (British) women poets. More specifically, it seeks to do so by giving close attention to the intersections of agency-as evident in the distinct ways in which women made use of poetry in their lives-and genre. Like some other recent scholars, Paula Backscheider here construes the latter term to include categories based on popular contemporary ideas of poems and their purposes, defined sometimes more by form and sometimes more by subject matter. She focuses in particular on the commonalities and differences, both of which she often finds revealing, between the functions of individual genres for men and for women. The roughly forty poets she considers are meant to constitute a diverse but not systematic or exhaustively comprehensive selection.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2006-02-25
  • Mått: 152 x 229 x 35 mm
  • Vikt: 862 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 544
  • Förlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
  • ISBN: 9780801881695
  • Utmärkelser: Joint winner of Modern Language Association James Russell Lowell Prize 2006 (United States)
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Paula R. Backscheider is the Philpott-Stevens Eminent Scholar in the Department of English at Auburn University. She is the author of several books, including Daniel Defoe: His Life, Spectacular Politics: Theatrical Power and Mass Culture in Early Modern England, and Reflections on Biography, and editor of Revising Women: Eighteenth-Century "Women's Fiction" and Social Engagement.

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Backscheider... writes with an ease and clarity that make this book fully accessible. Choice 2006 Passionate and wide-ranging study. -- Helen Deutsch London Review of Books 2006 Wise and preeminently useful... A courageous book. -- Ellen Moody Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer Our sense of eighteenth-century poetic territory is immeasurably expanded by the new work of Backscheider... Besides an excellent historical and cultural introduction on the landscape of poetry production in the eighteenth century,... each chapter offers fine-grained close readings of often fully quoted poems (many of which are still not readily available in print) along with biographical and formal contexts. -- Cynthia Wall Studies in English Literature 2006 For specialists of eighteenth-century literature in English, this is a must-read book. -- Betty A. Schellenberg Eighteenth-Century Studies 2006 This book paves the way for further work and is itself a valuable contribution to exciting nascent debates. -- Louise Marshall Modern Language Review 2008 Brilliantly introduces issues, opportunities, and new directions, that open up vistas into a vital world of complex personalities, engaging social practices, and inspiring artistic achievements. -- Elizabeth Kraft Scriblerian 2008 One of the best and most significant books on eighteenth-century poetry to appear in recent years. -- Stephen C. Behrendt Wordsworth Circle 2007

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